Friday, February 8, 2013

Weekend Reflections is hosted
by James each week
beginning Friday
at 11 AM Eastern Standard
Time. It's another
wonderful way of opening
your eyes to new and
different kinds of
beauty. Click on the web
address under the blog title and
sign up to play with us!

Between junky weather and taking lessons to learn how to use my new camera, I'm having to depend on my photo files for a while -- hope you can be patient with me!! Here are some of my favorite friends at the latest turtle convention! Politics everywhere these days!!

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. Victor Hugo

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Time to share
your skies, the beauty over your
world, the
clouds, the colors! Sky
Watch is hosted each week
by the Sky Watch team of
Sandy and I. And this week as every
week, we remember Klaus and know that he
joins us in spirit! Join us and
the many people from
all over the world who
share theirs with us
each week! http://skyley.blogspot.com/Hooray!! All is well again!! Sign in and join the fun!!

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.John F. Kennedy

Monday, February 4, 2013

Time for "Our World" again!
This is a wonderful way to find the
beauty, the fun, the good and even the bad
things about Our World and to share them! Hope
you will join us! Click on the link to
go to the Our World site and sign up!!

The Seattle area has quite a variety of shopping centers and not your usual ones, so it's always fun to visit one you haven't been to before and that was the case with this one in nearby Botthell, WA, a small suburb of Seattle. That's where my favorite tea shop is -- which I have shown you before. But the whole shopping center is like a small country village. Hope you enjoy!

Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.Denis Waitley

Change before you have to.Jack Welch

We look forward to the time when the power of love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.William Ewart Gladstone

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.Mother Teresa

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Hey guys, get up off your
tush and lets go see
Bozo over at his pad in Mumbai!
It's always a fun time when
we all get together and talk
about what's been happin',
Bro! You know? Get your
human to click on the Post
Title, that'll take them to the
website where you can sign up!
I'll be waiting for you!!

What Can I Say?

I'm interested in almost everything. Use to like to travel, but it's too expensive now. I take Tai Chi classes, swim, volunteer in a Jump-start program for pre-schoolers. I'm an avid reader and like nearly everyone these days I follow politics avidly. I'm a former teacher and Special Projects Coordinator for a Telecommunications company, Assistant to the President of a Japanese silicon wafer manufacturing company. Am now enjoying retirement -- most of the time. I have two daughters, one son-in-law and two sons scattered all over the country. No grandchildren.

Stop Hate Starting Here

I Never Saw Another Butterfly

So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellowPerhaps if the sun’s tears would singagainst a white stone....

Such, such a yellowIs carried lightly ’way up high.It went away I’m sure because it wished to kiss the world good-bye.

For seven weeks I’ve lived in herePenned up inside this ghetto.But I have found what I love here.The dandelions call to meAnd the white chestnut branches in the court.

Only I never saw another butterfly. That butterfly was the last one.Butterflies don’t live in here, in the ghetto.

Written by Pavel Friedman, June 4, 1942 Born in Prague on Jan. 7, 1921.Deported to the Terezin Concentration Camp on April 26, 1942. Died in Aushchwitzon Sept. 29, 1944.

Thank You, Anthony!!

Check out his blog and photos!

Chasing Ashes

I love to write and it has been a hobby for a long time. Mysteries were always my escape reading during some of the darker times of my life and I finally decided to give it a try. I've actually written seven over the years. Unfortunately, my last computer disaster resulted in my losing three of the latest four. I did manage to salvage this one.